BÉLECARTNET 1981-2001

TWENTY (20) years ago…
THE FIRST PACKET*
(SEPTEMBER 1981)

20 IX 1981
Ink and colouring pencils

« 3 persons, 1 planet, Baloo, Anne, Denis, the earth.
Let us look together to see our individual interiors.
The screen that separates us all…is it full? empty? hidden?
…But! Is it used? »

This was not the first cigarette rolling paper packet to be illustrated.
There were many packets done before this date with sketches or quick drawings.
This is the first signed and dated packet.
This may lead one to believe that a “serious” project had begun.

Many packets from 1981 are similar in design to comic strips or polyptychs.
Interesting fact: there are already a self-portrait, an animal and a very long title.
(I may have considered myself something of a poet).